Mrs. Robert Johnson has 200 cats, and each of them has a pedigree that extends back over many generations. As Mrs. Johnson has several millions of dollars and is a widow, her patrician cats live in a style befitting their long pedigrees. They live at Buena Vista, Mrs. Johnson's country mansion near Sonoma, Cal., and it takes three servants to care for the pussies. Every one of these cats is a real Angora, and...there are fences high and tight to keep these out and to restrain any vagrant tendencies that may have descended to any of these petted beauties from some outcast ancestor, for, as with most people of gentle blood, somewhere the fair line of ancestry runs into marauders, products perhaps of the wild time in which they lived. There are abouy 3,000 acres in the grounds about Buena Vista, and the residence stands In the center of ten acres of flowerpots and lawns.
~~~~~~ /alas, there is tension and a horrible battle/
As a punishment the murderous bird was sent to San Francisco and sold to a deep sea captain, who has since taught it to swear and also to drink Jamaica rum, which must be a source of great humiliation to it if remorse, regret and memory are among the attributes of a parrot who was reared amid such genteel surroundings.
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SHE DIDN'T HEED THE PARROT.;
So Josie German's Dress Was Stolen -- But the Thief Was Caught.
New York Times, 8/4/1864
Josie Gorman, a pretty young woman, of 566 Broome Street, says she heard her parrot down stairs calling out: "What you want?" several times, yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately, she did not heed the question of the intelligent parrot. She wished she had when a friend entered her room and asked her if she had sent a man out with her new gray silk and velvet dress...
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